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veronica_richNow that we've traveled some in the Midwest of America, let's head further south.
Several years ago, I went with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
a_silver_rose to Charleston, South Carolina, for a short vacation. Back then, you could still drive cheaper than you could fly, so we took an 18-hour (one way) road trip. Now I live in the mid-South, sort of.
Earlier this year, I had found a digital camera from years ago and finally figured out how to download the driver to my newer computer, allowing me to once again use the damn thing. So, as I was driving home from visiting relatives, I thought I would take a test shot here and there. Here, we come into Kentucky over the Ohio River, I believe it is.
(Couldn't resist, mates ...)
Going through Nashville ... and no, you don't get better photos because I was driving alone and I do have to devote a few brain cells to not weaving into the guy driving beside me while on the highway.
Now, on to the more scenic areas:
I took this photo 3-4 years ago at Deal's Gap, Tennessee. It's at one end of a 13-mile driving course comprised of more than 300 hairpin turns (meaning, you can't go over about 30 mph at TOP speed) called the Dragon's Tail. It's a big visitor spot for motorcyclists and Mazda Miata enthusiasts to come drive on a regular basis, and they even have annual festivals and such.
Who is that hopping up and down like a bunny rabbit on speed, on the top of some of the fort bunkers we found in Charleston? (The upper one is Fort Sumter; the lower one, I can't remember, but maybea_silver_rose can if she reads this.)
While in Charleston, one of our nighttime activities was to go on a 2-hour "ghost tour" of the city, where you follow around this guide who tells you all the good juicy stories of spectres haunting the buildings and cemeteries there. This is one of the cemeteries we were in, thata_silver_rose made me go back to the next day.
I don't remember the name of the plantation, but it's where part of "North and South" the miniseries was filmed. Below is another, better photo of the tree-lined grove along which the carriages would have clopped. Many of these trees were planted by the original plantation owner's son upwards of 200 years or so ago.
There's an outdoor market in downtown Charleston where various wares are made and sold, including this booth of baskets. I have a thing about perspective in photography and this just sort of presented itself.
There's a LOT more photos I didn't post of my trip in this journal entry, but that's OK. I have other stuff I'll throw up in the next few days, from other places. I want to take this opportunity to tag other people to do something like this in their own LJs, then maybe post the link as a comment here so I can go look at them (and other visitors to my LJ can do the same).
Post your road trips! Weird places! Unusual people! Fish-eating plastic dinosaurs! Farmers' markets! The world's second largest ball of twine! Superman statues!
Several years ago, I went with
a_silver_rose to Charleston, South Carolina, for a short vacation. Back then, you could still drive cheaper than you could fly, so we took an 18-hour (one way) road trip. Now I live in the mid-South, sort of.Earlier this year, I had found a digital camera from years ago and finally figured out how to download the driver to my newer computer, allowing me to once again use the damn thing. So, as I was driving home from visiting relatives, I thought I would take a test shot here and there. Here, we come into Kentucky over the Ohio River, I believe it is.
(Couldn't resist, mates ...)
Going through Nashville ... and no, you don't get better photos because I was driving alone and I do have to devote a few brain cells to not weaving into the guy driving beside me while on the highway.
Now, on to the more scenic areas:
I took this photo 3-4 years ago at Deal's Gap, Tennessee. It's at one end of a 13-mile driving course comprised of more than 300 hairpin turns (meaning, you can't go over about 30 mph at TOP speed) called the Dragon's Tail. It's a big visitor spot for motorcyclists and Mazda Miata enthusiasts to come drive on a regular basis, and they even have annual festivals and such.
Who is that hopping up and down like a bunny rabbit on speed, on the top of some of the fort bunkers we found in Charleston? (The upper one is Fort Sumter; the lower one, I can't remember, but maybe
a_silver_rose can if she reads this.)While in Charleston, one of our nighttime activities was to go on a 2-hour "ghost tour" of the city, where you follow around this guide who tells you all the good juicy stories of spectres haunting the buildings and cemeteries there. This is one of the cemeteries we were in, that
a_silver_rose made me go back to the next day.I don't remember the name of the plantation, but it's where part of "North and South" the miniseries was filmed. Below is another, better photo of the tree-lined grove along which the carriages would have clopped. Many of these trees were planted by the original plantation owner's son upwards of 200 years or so ago.
There's an outdoor market in downtown Charleston where various wares are made and sold, including this booth of baskets. I have a thing about perspective in photography and this just sort of presented itself.
There's a LOT more photos I didn't post of my trip in this journal entry, but that's OK. I have other stuff I'll throw up in the next few days, from other places. I want to take this opportunity to tag other people to do something like this in their own LJs, then maybe post the link as a comment here so I can go look at them (and other visitors to my LJ can do the same).
Post your road trips! Weird places! Unusual people! Fish-eating plastic dinosaurs! Farmers' markets! The world's second largest ball of twine! Superman statues!
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